Peak Oil (Greenest Before Dawn)

Links

General websites
Many sites cover peak oil. Some favorites:

Energy Bulletin Latest news on peak oil and energy. Updated daily
Global Public Media (Online interviews and lectures on peak oil)
Post Carbon Institute : Learning to Live in a Low Energy World (organizational)

Short articles
Just a few of the many articles on the web:

The Empire at Oil's End by Mike Davis, tomdispatch.com (May 29, 04)
Lights Out! The End of the Oil Age by Jason Mark, AlterNet (Apr 14, 04)
When the Oil Runs Out by Mac Lawrence. (Jan/Feb 04 Timeline)
Will The End of Oil Mean The End of America? by Robert Freeman (Mar 1, 04)
Break out the bicycles: by George Monbiot in UK Guardian (Jun 8, 04)
The Bottom of the Barrel: by George Monbiot in UK Guardian (Dec 2, 03)
The Future of Energy Analysis for investors: "oil at $100/barrel in the next 15 years."
C. J. Campbell Presentation on Peak Oil
Kerry's "Energy Plan" by Stan Goff (in-depth leftist analysis of energy & capitalism)
The end of oil (special issue of New Internationalist)

Julian Darley
Associated with Global Public Media and Post Carbon Institute.

General Knowledge in the Post-Carbon Age (lecture)

David Ehrenfeld

The Coming Collapse of the Age of Technology
The Joseph Strategy ("As the energy emergency unfolds, is the blackout of 2003 a preview of things to come?")

Richard Heinberg
Professor of cultural ecology at New College, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Home page (MuseLetter)
A Letter from the Future (Museletter 110 - Mar 2001)
THE PARTY'S OVER: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (description of Heinberg's recent book).
"The Petroleum Plateau" (MuseLetter 135 - May 2003)
Growing Security MuseLetter # 146 / May 2004)
Video of speech �Is America Running Out of Gas?� (12/10/03)
Plan War and the Hubbert Oil Curve: An Interview with Richard Heinberg by David Ross (April 17, 2004)
Oil Gone (article on Heinberg and end of oil) By R. V. Scheide

David Holmgren
One of the founders of permaculture.

James Howard Kunstler
Social critic and opponent of suburbia.

Homepage
A Glimpse into the Future
The Fiasco of Suburbia (from Orion)
Farewell to the Twentieth Century
Interview (transcript) / (MP3 and selections)
Sleepwalking into the Future
Strategies for Survival
Employment tips for the post-oil age
Remarks in Hudson, NY (Jan 8, 2005)

Amory Lovins (RMI)

Winning the Oil Endgame (site) / (online book, 1.7MB PDF)

Jan Lundberg.
N. Calif activist and writer. Member of Lundberg family of oil analysts.

Culture Change homepage and online newsletter, with an emphasis on oil and energy)
"The fall of petroleum civilization"

New Solutions: The Community Solution

The Community Solution (homepage, describing the end of oil)
Small Local Community (another homepage, emphasizing small communities)
Community Resurgence and Oil Depletion
Cuba: Life after Oil

Howard Odum
Pioneering US ecologist; influenced the beginning of permaculture. Known for his energy analysis. Brother of another ecologist, Eugene P. Odum, important for environmental movement.

Resolution of Respect (obituary)
More Perspective on World Energy Relationships (prophetic comments from 1974)
Wikepedia entry
Energy, Ecology, & Economics (more understandable than other papers. 1974)
eMergy Evaluation (explains the idea of embedded energy. 1998)
H.T. Odum's Energy Diagrams by Ben Fusaro in Environmental Math
Emergy Accounting (PDF. Apr 2000).
Promise and Problems of Emergy Analysis (PDF) review of Odum's concepts
The Prosperous Way Down / alternate site / at EB (summary of recent book)
EmergySystems.Org devoted to emergy systems and systems ecology.

Dr. Hermann Scheer.
German MP, advocate of renewable energy.

Matthew Simmons.
Oil analyst. Advisor to Pres. Bush.